Lin Wu was excited, to say the least upon seeing the dagger. It was the first object or rather weapon that he had obtained that was not broken and was usable. Though it was still questionable whether he would actually be able to use it or not.
"Alright, about time my luck turned around. Finally, something good." Lin Wu uttered with excitement.
Lin Wu read the description of the dagger again and found some things to be similar to the previous broken weapons. The main component being the spirit stone dust. There were differences between their grades, which Lin Wu noticed.
'Hmm, this one is made using high grade spirit stone dust, while the others were made using the low grade. This itself speaks well of its quality.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
After having pondered on it for a while, Lin Wu thought it was enough and decided to continue onward.
"System, store the dagger in the inventory." Lin Wu ordered.
~Ding~
In the next instant, the dagger that was embedded in the tree disappeared and the inventory window updated to see that it now contained the dagger.
"Hmm, that's good. Now let's head to the next marker." Lin Wu muttered to himself before looking at the map.
The seventh quest marker was to the Southwest of Lin Wu's current location and did not seem to be that far from him. Merely five minutes later, he had reached his destination and the quest marker was right in front of him.
This time the quest marker was another large rock. The rock was nearly six meters tall, except that it looked to be rather peculiar in shape. It had a rough surface and spikes were protruding out of it at irregular intervals. Though upon taking a closer look, Lin Wu found it to be slightly familiar to him.
"Is this…? System, scan this rock." Lin Wu ordered.
~Ding~
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TARGET: Molted Beast Husk
INFO: This is the discarded husk of an unknown beast. The composition of it seems to match the fragment of the beast carapace that the host previously obtained. The system has also detected bloodline traces that are similar to the unknown bloodline that the host has.
SUGGESTION: The host should consume the Molted Beast Husk in order to obtain more information.
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After reading the information window, Lin Wu was a bit shocked.
"You mean, this was left by the beast that killed that Nascent soul realm cultivator in one hit?" Lin Wu uttered in shock.
Lin Wu compared its size to himself and found it to be at least a few tens of times bigger than him. He had not able to see the beast before in the memory as it was hidden by the dust, but now that he could actually see its appearance and size he felt overwhelmed.
'If this is just the molted husk of the beast, that means the beast should have grown even bigger than this, shouldn't it? Oh heavens, how big must it be now, not to mention its strength, it must be extremely powerful.' Lin Wu wondered.
He then went closer and tried to see its form. Even in the information window, the shape of the beast could not be seen, and it only seemed like a lump of rock.
"System, what is the actual form of the beast, can you show me?" Lin Wu curiously asked.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The system cannot show the actual form of the beast due to a lack of data. The system has obtained the three dimensional data of the husk and found that it is only the external carapace of the beast. It does not cover its limbs, but rather only its back. Thus the actual form of the beast cannot be deciphered.
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"Damn, if this is just the external part, then just how much more bigger is it. This is already bigger than any other land animal from my past life." Lin Wu spoke to himself.
Lin Wu was surprised for a while, but then he started to think of his quest. His quest was to obtain the quest objectives. It did not matter how he obtained it though, he could eat the item as he had done twice before, or he could simply store it in the inventory.
'Let's try eating it first.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
He approached the Molted beast Husk and bit on one of the protruding spikes.
~Clink~
"As I expected, it's much harder than I thought." Lin Wu muttered as he found himself being unable to break the spike of the husk.
He then thought of using his previous technique and formed a pickaxe with his tail. He then circled around the entire husk while hitting it with all his strength yet could not find any point that was weak or flawed. All the places were of the same hardness as before and seemed to be impossible for him to break.
'Hmm, if I can't find a weak point on the surface, perhaps they are hidden beneath it.' Lin Wu hypothesized.
Thinking over this idea, Lin Wu started digging at the edge of the Husk and soon entered the ground. The soil here was molten and had fused together the same as the other places, but with Lin Wu's enhanced strength it proved to be relatively easier to break.
After entering the ground, he crawled under the shell and then dug upwards. He broke the surface of the hardened soil and appeared inside the Husk.
"It is hollow, as I expected. But this also means there should be some weak points here. The inner surface should be more weaker, perhaps." Lin Wu said in a calm tone.
Since he was inside the Husk, it was completely dark here. Still, the darkness posed no hindrance to him, as he could still see relatively clearly due to his unique physiology. Under his close scrutiny, Lin Wu ended up discovering some indentations that spread around the entire surface of the Husk.
These indentations were only present on its inner side, thus were impossible for him to see it from the outside.
Lin Wu reformed his tail into a pickaxe and hit these indents with it. He also used qi amplification with it to maximize power.
~Clink~
~Clang~
~Clink~
Lin Wu hit it multiple times, but there seemed to be zero difference from before.
"Dammit, this won't work. This beast was able to kill the nascent soul realm cultivator in one hit, just after being born. It is too much for me to be able to break its defense right now. I need to think of a different approach." Lin Wu said in a frustrated tone.
He tapped the inside of the Husk in multiple places to see if he could find any difference in it while thinking but could not find anything.
'Come on Lin Wu, think. You were a biology student before, think of creatures that molt their skin or shells.' Lin Wu internally spoke to himself.
He spent nearly an hour like this and was quite close to ripping out his imaginary hair before he was able to finally think of something that just might work.
"Here's goes nothing… Radiation manipulation activate." Lin Wu muttered.
As soon as he did that, his vision changed and everything turned black and white.